25. Therefore, take courage, men, because I believe God that it will be just the way it was told to me.
26. However, we must run aground on a certain island.”
27. When the fourteenth night came, we were drifting in the Adriatic Sea, and in the middle of the night the sailors thought they were approaching land.
28. They took a sounding and found it to be 120 feet deep; when they had sailed a little farther and sounded again, they found it to be 90 feet deep.
29. Then, fearing we might run aground in some rocky place, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daylight to come.
30. Some sailors tried to escape from the ship; they had let down the skiff into the sea, pretending that they were going to put out anchors from the bow.
31. Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.”
32. Then the soldiers cut the ropes holding the skiff and let it drop away.
33. When it was about daylight, Paul urged them all to take food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have been waiting and going without food, having eaten nothing.